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It is so rare for me to have to pickup a pen or pencil and actually write something out anymore but when I do it is amazing how shit I write now. It is terrible. Am I alone gaf?
 
You are not alone! Kind of!

To be honest, I've always had bad handwriting. I hated cursive in third grade and that kind of sapped my will to actually work on my handwriting. Typing all the time has made it even worse though.
 
I was going to write something in cursive writing one day . . . and then I realized that I didn't even remember how to write half the letters.
 
Nope, CS major here and I've recently found my handwriting on physical assignments to be truly terrible. I honestly think it's a result of 95% of my work being done via keyboard.
 
My handwritten was shit until I went back to college in Feb. Now I have "neat" handwriting.
 
My handwriting was bad before I discovered the internet. I'm a very awkward leftie and I used to hold my pencil in a fist.

If it's any consolation, my dad's handwriting is so bad, it's illegible even when he writes in print.
 
Nah, my handwriting is pretty meticulous. I've been told by chicks in school that my handwriting was pretty good for a guy.
 
My handwriting is improving, although my printing is still varying shades of meh. It varies day by day.

I started practicing my cursive last summer and have been at it almost every date. For the first time ever, all my college notes are in cursive and are actually MORE legible than my printed ones from last year.
 
Usually after a summer break, my handwriting used to look like total crap during the following college semester. Now that I'm a server and all is okay in the handwriting world.
 
My handwriting went to shit when they taught us cursive in elementary school and it only got worse when I switched to mostly using a keyboard in daily life. Fortunately I mostly only use handwriting for mtg related things, so it's not a big problem.
 
Mine is relatively nice, oddly enough, but HOLY HELL @ the amount of typos and misplaced letters. You'd think I'm just barely literate going by my handwriting.
 
When I did drafting back in the day, I had lazer accurate font skills, now my writing looks like someone in and earthquake penning a novel...

sadness...
 
I have rubbish handwriting >_<

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I feel like is still good but I tend to cramp my letters to the point where some are starting to just look like indiscriminate lines. This only happens with the last word for some reason.

In any case, I usually make it a point to handwrite regularly to keep my penmanship in check. Sometimes, I like writing long-form versus using a keyboard, despite writing faster on a keyboard.
 
I actually have very nice handwriting.

Even complimented by an Arab guy on a flight. I don't know why that matters, but I feel it gives it validation.
 
I actually have better handwriting now than I used to. Not sure how that happened, considering I never write anything by hand.
 
my handwriting has always hovered between terrible and readable.

Typing on computers has really messed with my ability to spell without a checker though.
 
My note taking/speed writing is shit, so I can't read 90% of the notes I took from school.

My neat writing is much better though, but i'm helpless with anything other than mechanical pencil or writing on a whiteboard.
 
Gazoinks said:
You are not alone! Kind of!

To be honest, I've always had bad handwriting. I hated cursive in third grade and that kind of sapped my will to actually work on my handwriting. Typing all the time has made it even worse though.
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fist-bump. I'm the exact same way. You guys should see my signature. LOL.
 
I'm in an office job now, and my handwriting's actually gotten better. I take pride in the few times I have to hand-write someone a note, paying attention to the proportions of the letters and their alignment and shit. Feels good. So does cursive.
 
I spent about 2 weeks improving my handwriting. It was nice until I moved to a heavier mechanical pencil for everyday writing. Now everyone says I write like a doctor.
 
I seriously hope I won't have to handwrite a lot in college, my handwriting sucks now and I type on my Surface Pro whenever I can for notes/stylus for occasional math. I am literally at a loss if I need to do massive stints of my chicken scratch for papers etc :(

Hopefully by the time I have a job more will be done electronically...D:
 
Aurongel said:
Nope, CS major here and I've recently found my handwriting on physical assignments to be truly terrible. I honestly think it's a result of 95% of my work being done via keyboard.
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Glad I'm not alone, same here and I have the same theory as to what's to blame as well. It used to be great too. I think I need to start keeping like a handwritten daily log or something, I hate having shit handwriting.
 
If it makes you feel any better, mine has always been shit. I find mine looks like a 5 year old was holding a crayon and then went to town on a poor piece of paper.
 
My handwriting has always been shit. I always avoid writing things by hand unless it's number or math.

Edit: Looked at the pictures. They're fucking beautiful. My handwriting is pure crap compared to those, you guys shouldn't be worried at all. Seriously, I've seen much worse handwriting from a lot of different people.
 
My writing was always a bit sloppy, and never really improved much since I was a kid. Being out of school, and rarely having to write any more had resulted in slower writing and more mistakes. Suppose that happens with most things though, when out of practice.
 
Featheredkitten said:
Are you two kidding me right? This is great handwriting.


My handwriting is pretty good because i hand write notes for my classes, it's only illegible because half of it is in french and half in english. No one borrows my notes anymore.

My mum's handwriting is awful, teachers used to call me up to ask what she wrote in notes.
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I hate my handwriting because I end up mixing regular text and script text. I find it quicker for some reason.
 
I think women tend to have better handwriting than men.

Mine is horrible, there are two styles I would love to emulate if I could. I had a few professors that went to Oxford that had this crazy looking handwriting really cool looking. That one or how people write like they are tagging/doing graffiti.
 
Mine was shit my entire life UNTIL I dropped a rock on my hand about three weeks before starting college. I was in surgery for 6 hours to repair a compound fracture. Then, I could barely hold a pencil or write (and slowly at that) without tons of pain. It turns out that going more slowly was the answer to better writing. The other key was that, in an effort to bring the pain down even the tiniest bit, I went to the college bookstore and tried out a bunch on pens and pencils. I had never given a crap before. It turns out it makes a huge difference.

Today, my handwriting gets so many compliments - especially from women. It's...a tad girly, I guess.

It took a year to get the pins out of my finger, do rehab so I could flex/extend my middle finger again (it's 90+% where it was, but it's slightly crooked), and in that time, I just became more and more hooked on nice pens and pencils. I'm not talking Mont Blanc pens - past about $50, you're really paying for the fountain pen body, not the nib. My best mechanical pencils were about $20 - the bodies are made from ash trees reserved for making baseball bats. The best wooden pencils on the planet are about $1-2 a pop.

I made a thread about wooden pencils here. I was actually thinking about finally making the second part, about mechanical pencils, this morning, and then ClassyPenguin linked me to this thread. Is there interest in more writing utensil nerdery? I want to do one on getting started with fountain pens, too. You can get a disposable, which actually writes way better than it has any right to, for a few bucks. Here's a cartridge-based pen for $7.25 that I can almost guarantee will immediately improve your writing.
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I love evangelizing this stuff.
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This is funny you brought this up OP i was just thinking this last night. Its funny because i took a computer class that i was forced to go in high school. I refused to learn to type properly because i thought (my young stupid mind) that it was a useless skill. Well now i type and i still use my 2 fucking fingers and i have to look at the key board :/

Do they still teach handwrtting in scools?
 
People compliment my handwriting often, others make fun of me because my writing is girly. I guess it's because I like to curve my letters. I write exclusively in print though, fuck cursive.
 
Its been months since Ive had to write more than a few words I sat down to write a few paragraphs for something yesterday and it was like a 4 year old learning to write, I couldn't stay in the lines I was switching mid sentence to cursive and then back to print some of the letters came out as symbols I didn't even recognize.
 
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